Irishman: "I heard you paint houses."
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Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Harvey Keitel in Martin Scorsese's crime drama "The Irishman".
"With these words, Robert De Niro presented it to Scorsese. And he was not mistaken. The irresistible desire to make a film based on this book captivated the master immediately, to be realized a decade later.
"I heard you paint houses" in mafia language means "I heard you kill people." "Painting houses" refers to blood. This is the case when the mafia bosses recognized the book about themselves as truthful - the hitman of one of the "families," Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran, told his life story before his death. His stories were listened to with bated breath by experienced prosecutors and FBI agents. For the first time, a criminal of this level broke the "omertà" - the law of silence.
A hooligan youth during the Great Depression, the first smell of blood in World War II, an accidental entry into the closed world of the Italian-American mafia, an exit from which is more expensive than the entrance - when you have to choose between your life and the life of your best friend...